Rituals in Slavic Pre-Christian Religion
Festivals, Banqueting, and Divination
Seiten
2023
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New edition
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-64189-206-3 (ISBN)
ARC Humanities Press (Verlag)
978-1-64189-206-3 (ISBN)
This book is Open Access and available from OAPEN. Reconstructs the rituals of Slavic pre-Christian religion and society through a close examination of written medieval sources.
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by the fact that all of these sources are indirect, since the Slavs did not acquire literacy until they became Christians. Thus the writers of these texts mostly professed a monotheistic religion, being Christians and in some cases Muslims. The picture that they offer is biased and determined by their own faith. The present analysis innovatively combines testimonies from every Slavic area (Eastern, Western, and Southern), showing their mutual correspondences and emphasizing the relationship between the Slavic pre-Christian religion and its Indo-European roots.
The authors comprehensively analyze all the available information regarding the ritual practices of Slavic pre-Christian religion that can be found in written medieval texts. After investigating every kind of reference to such practices, they offer a reconstruction of Slavic pre-Christian religion on the basis of these medieval testimonies. In doing so, they overcome the challenges presented by the fact that all of these sources are indirect, since the Slavs did not acquire literacy until they became Christians. Thus the writers of these texts mostly professed a monotheistic religion, being Christians and in some cases Muslims. The picture that they offer is biased and determined by their own faith. The present analysis innovatively combines testimonies from every Slavic area (Eastern, Western, and Southern), showing their mutual correspondences and emphasizing the relationship between the Slavic pre-Christian religion and its Indo-European roots.
Juan Antonio Álvarez-Pedrosa is a Full Professor of Indo-European Linguistics at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid. Enrique Santos Marinas is an Associate Professor of Slavic Philology at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Methodological Problems in Reconstructing Pre-Christian Slavic Religion
Chapter 2: Fertility Rites
Chapter 3: Rites of Everyday Life
Chapter 4: Military Rites
Chapter 5: Funerary Rites
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index of Names
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.05.2023 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Beyond Medieval Europe |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-64189-206-4 / 1641892064 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-64189-206-3 / 9781641892063 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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